The thing I wanted to know... is there any possibility to tell the printer that it only prints a specific seciton of the drawing. Means making a frame around the partdrawing, pressing some buttons and print only the marked/framed parts?

The thing I wanted to know... is there any possibility to tell the printer that it only prints a specific seciton of the drawing. Means making a frame around the partdrawing, pressing some buttons and print only the marked/framed parts?

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Ok -I understand better now. No you cannot select a window of part of your drawing to print like in AutoCAD etc....

The easiest workaround for now is probably to create a white solid fill that hides the unwanted areas:

- Create a separate layer "overlay" with its color set to white.
- Draw a rectangle that limits the area you want to print.
- Draw another rectangle, at least as large as the complete drawing.
- Select both rectangles and choose "Draw" - "Hatch"
- Create a solid fill.
- If necessary, select everything on that layer and move it to the front ("Modify" - "To Front").

- Make sure that white is printed as white and not black:
Edit - Preferences - Graphics View - untick "Auto correct black and white colors".
This is important since otherwise you will get a black overlay instead.
- Export to PDF or print.

andrew wrote:The easiest workaround for now is probably to create a white solid fill that hides the unwanted areas:

- Create a separate layer "overlay" with its color set to white.- Draw a rectangle that limits the area you want to print.- Draw another rectangle, at least as large as the complete drawing.- Select both rectangles and choose "Draw" - "Hatch"- Create a solid fill.- If necessary, select everything on that layer and move it to the front ("Modify" - "To Front").

- Make sure that white is printed as white and not black: Edit - Preferences - Graphics View - untick "Auto correct black and white colors". This is important since otherwise you will get a black overlay instead.- Export to PDF or print.

Andrew - thanks this 'workaround' is really useful. I`ve tried this out and a couple of things to mention to help others.

1.Using a polyline to 'limit' / window selected areas is easier -it gives you more flexibility.

2.By default layer '0' is White -You have to change this layer to black in order to get this layer to print out properly when you 'untick' Auto correct black and white colours.